He WILL go!!
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I hope you're prepared to buy out Fairfax then because 1
Watsa was who hired him and he seems fine with the direction.
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Watsa is a share holder he has to also answer to the board of Fairfax .
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Very true but you have to admit the odds of Chen getting fired are slim. If BlackBerry is sold off for a nice profit Fairfax will gain handsomely. I think their board will keep quiet on this one. If they get out now it's at a big loss. They're pretty much stuck I believe. I personally believe this plan is designed to sell the company off for whatever profit can be had. Let's be real. It's easier to cut costs and sell the company than try to turn it around especially with BlackBerry's risk averse board of directors. If anything be mad at them. They're the ones who panicked.
That's precisely what I said, prop and prep for a quick sale. Chen has done NOTHING for BlackBerry. I know the Chennites are upset by the truth.
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The design team (May they rest in peace) really do deserve praise. Even the Q10 feels great in the hand when compared with Samsung phones.
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I resoundly agree 100%, Love rocking my Q10! Live on baby!!
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I wouldn't say he's done nothing. He's bought some companies which is a viable strategy. WatchDox and good were good acquisitions I think. The Blackberry Radar is also something developed under Chen. If like phones BlackBerry is not a company most here will care about and they're ok with that. You weren't profitable anyway. They're hoping to get away from consumer facing products. Consumers are to hard to please for a company with BlackBerry's budget.
No problem with that strategy any ***** could have done that however. It was no accomplishment . You failed to understand that software was only one part of the corporate equation. From the days of their pagers BlackBerry always offered their corporate clients the complete package. He removed the hardware from the corporate user. BB for the General public only was a recent phenomenon, which greatly helped them reach the height of success. Chen is inept.
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Well lots of corporations chose not to get the complete package even when BlackBerry had it on offer. Many used androids and iPhones for years now. So it's no great loss to them.
So first, we agree on Chen's communication challenges. He should hire someone to help with that.
On the software side, though, I don't think you can just dismiss the acquisitions. Good was a good acquisition, and is now part of the offering. He should get credit for that.
But even beyond the acquisitions, he's on track to deliver 30% organic growth in software this year. That's a very solid number, wouldn't you agree? The margins there are very strong, and so when he's rid of the losing parts of the business, this could well be a strong, growing company again.
It's a shell of what BlackBerry was. Growth? Growth through what exactly? The captive clientele from the acquisition? Without the acquisition of Good Technology there has been contraction of the "software side".
Chen needs to GO.
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Great praise after the fact. When the Z10 and Q10 came out, there was nothing but complaints about builds and stories of returns... Oh, but they're solid now, after they fixed things. Well, well, let's market the crap out of them and get that market share back!
Chen should paint a pretty picture, regardless of how things are actually going to show confidence and commitment... but at the same time, stop stringing customers along?!
Quick sale could have happened long ago, without Chen. Perhaps the goal is to raise company value so it can command a higher price. That's legitimate for shareholders.
Easier said than done and much easier when you don't have to do it yourself, 'cause there will just be another CEO who did it wrong...
There are reasonable BlackBerry fans who want a complete lineup of both VKB + PKB. Companies must have different solutions for different types of customers. I personally like PKB and would never buy a VKB-only BlackBerry, that doesn't mean I don't want them to release VKBs. As a matter of fact I keep criticizing their stupidity because they released the Priv with a PKB.
One must have some sense to be able to separate what works for himself and what works for the masses. VKB sells, PKB doesn't. I think they should concentrate mainly on VKBs with different ranges and then release one PKB device in the mid to high range.
And what of the those who NEED it?? No great loss, yeah.
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Chen came along when BlackBerry was burning BILLIONS a quarter... he did some tough love to get things under control and buy BlackBerry time. BB10 and Hardware were already a failure when he came along, there was no do over or reset and try again. It's pretty clear from the difficulties that BlackBerry, Windows, FireFox, Sailfish and even Tizen have faced, that there is no platform without users. And at this point there are no developers to build that platform, without users.
Is Chen a great communicator... no, he are someone always have to come back and explain or counter something he says. And to be honest, he says things that probably should be said. As for BlackBerry the software company... I remember a time when $500M a quarter was a goal, now its a dream. And the "turn around" has definitely taken much longer than was originally planned. But they currently do seem to be on track at this point. Just need hardware and BIS Service Fees to fade away and then we will see just what type of small company BlackBerry can be...
Chen came along when BlackBerry was burning BILLIONS a quarter... he did some tough love to get things under control and buy BlackBerry time. BB10 and Hardware were already a failure when he came along, there was no do over or reset and try again. It's pretty clear from the difficulties that BlackBerry, Windows, FireFox, Sailfish and even Tizen have faced, that there is no platform without users. And at this point there are no developers to build that platform, without users.
Is Chen a great communicator... no, he are someone always have to come back and explain or counter something he says. And to be honest, he says things that probably should be said. As for BlackBerry the software company... I remember a time when $500M a quarter was a goal, now its a dream. And the "turn around" has definitely taken much longer than was originally planned. But they currently do seem to be on track at this point. Just need hardware and BIS Service Fees to fade away and then we will see just what type of small company BlackBerry can be...
As for the OP.... sure folks are inserted in the phones still, they are unique. But they don't run on Verizon and apps is apps, nothing has chanced other than BB10 is EOL and by the end of the year so will hardware in general be....
Chen is an operations guy. He is not deeply versed in software or hardware but he understands enough to manage the financial strategy so it starts to turn around. If you study his decisions he made several to increase or sustain cash flow until he could get a clear view of what direction BlackBerry would take. That is what he was hired to do.
We may not like where the company is now but at least the picture is becoming clear. I do agree he lacks the slick communication double talk of many executives but I do not think it belies his intelligence in regards to running the company.
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Those that need it aren't enough to make a profit. Look we understand you don't like the direction the company is going. I'm not so sure it's a good direction myself. All I'm saying is it's too soon to say Chen is a failure. BB10 was years late and badly marketed. All that happened before Chen. He didn't correct those problems but that likely wasn't the instructions he was given. I've said it before and I'll say it again. If you're upset about devices ending your quarrel doesn't lay with Chen. He just did the dirty job no one wanted to.
He is a F A I L U R E!! Direction they are going?? Where is that down?? Chen hasn't done ANYTHING for BlackBerry except destroy it.
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I think you're too attached to devices. I say let's see where the strategy goes. If the company folds then it was a catalog of errors that caused it not just Chen alone.
What did they fix on the Q10?
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It's Chen's responsibility like it or not. Not Mike or Jim or Thors.
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100 percent agree with this.
I saw pictures of the passport online and read about its specs but never really appreciated the phone until I actually held one in my hand and saw it in action.
Ridiculously nice device.
If only Chen had rolled it out properly and hadn't gutted BlackBerry world. Can you imagine if the Passport had been the target device for the Z10 rollout? Or even the Z30.
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